Just how many parents can a kid have? A collaboration with Freakonomics.

Ever wondered why our brains crave a good scare?

A sweet archive of almost biblical proportions can be found at the University of California, Riverside.

Learn more about orienteering, the sport that forces you to navigate with just old-fashioned maps and compasses—no GPS allowed.

Volunteers have been finding, excavating, removing, and sometimes even defusing bombs.

The one clock that sets them all.

Lacrosse can trace its origins back centuries to the Native American "Creator's Game."

In March 1895, a husband murdered his wife after accusing her of being replaced by an evil fairy.

This "victory garden" grew produce to help bolster dwindling food supplies during World War II.

Time to go back to school to appreciate some unusual campus traditions with the Altas Obscura Places Team.

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.

Check out the mycelium madness of a Pennsylvania town’s annual mushroom fest.

We go back in time to another era of travel and take a trip on the oldest commercial sailing vessel in the United States.

What does it take to run your abandoned town?

A history of Michigan's own personal Hell.

This abandoned Italian mansion, with its fair share of ghostly tales.

Hear the saga of an ambitious, government-backed homestead project that never quite lived up to its hype.

One family's visit to Lake Michigan turns into a wild tale of a missing boy and mysterious tunnels.

We visit a tiny town in West Virginia where, once a year, people jump off a bridge.

We get the backstory to the new novel Whalefall, about a man who finds himself in the belly of a sperm whale.

The devil's in the details of this disturbing Norwegian church mural.

An episode that might have you rethink your stance on the humble rat.

These churches might seem unassuming from the outside, but intricate surprises await within.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, this rock has certainly earned its nickname.